Amazon launches e-books in 5 Indian languages on Kindle

These books will support all popular Kindle features like Whispersync, font size adjustment and ability to add notes and highlights to these books.Vikas SN | ETtech | Updated: December 02, 2016, 11:54 IST

Amazon will finally allow Kindle users to read e-books in five Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Malalayam, Gujarati and Marathi.

At launch, Amazon claimed that it will be offering thousands of free and paid e-books, that includes hundreds of exclusive titles in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, and Malayalam and readers will be able to access these books on their Kindle e-readers and Kindle iOS & Android apps.

The selection will also include translations of globally popular titles like Rhonda Byrne's “The Secret”, and Robin Sharma's “The Monk who sold his Ferrari” and exclusive titles like Satya Vyas's “Banaras Talkies”, Madhanand's “Ki.Mu.Ki.Pi”, Kaajal Oza Vaidya's “Draupadi”.

Indic keyboards

Sanjeev Jha, Director – Kindle Content India told ETtech they are bringing in popular Kindle features like Whispersync, font size adjustment and ability to add notes and highlights to these books.

What's however particularly noteworthy is that Kindle e-book readers will feature Indic keyboards based on the language of the book purchased i.e. if a user purchases a Hindi book, a Hindi keyboard will automatically get enabled in the book which readers can make use to take notes. Search however doesn't support Indic input yet.